RyoHazuki84
俺が益荒男
I'm hoping to see a Showing here in Tokyo for TGS 2019. I want to be present for its premiere if planned
Has it been confirmed to be at the TGS? If so, I think we’d have heard something by now.
I'm one of the older fans around here - I was 25 or 26 when I played Shenmue I, so I don't have a childhood memory to live up to. Having said that, I was still mightily impressed by Shenmue at the time. My hope is that there will be an abundance of the same kind of rare and unique experiences that people are still discovering and sharing with each other from I & II even now... in other words, in 2038, someone will share an interaction with a character in a specific time or place that they found in III, and others will have that same "Wow, I never saw that before!" reaction. So I've got high (low?) hopes for the depth of the game's world. That's what will make it really satisfying to me.
Would that be back in 2000? LOL. I sort of have that role as an “older fan” to the Yakuza community. I got the Japanese version of it back in November 2005, when it debuted and I was 21 and most people told me they were teenagers or just too young to play it back then. But yeah, even the old Shenmue games have features people are sharing that many haven’t noticed before and I’m positive Shenmue III could offer such content.
hen people talk about something missing in their lives, this is a prime example for me. I could not care how good or bad this game is, I just need to see the third game through, and ideally the entire series.
I was a kid who was bullied at school, never thought I would have a decent job, own my home, get married and have a child. Because these stuff have come to fruition, I have largely put the bad times behind me. I no longer think about the times I was bullied and I have no real regrets from the past or things buried that I don't want resurfacing.
However, Shenmue is the god damn exception. Since the second game, I've probably not gone a single week without thinking about Shenmue. It's the only lingering thing from my past that's on my mind. It's got to a point I could not care if this game was absolute crap, I just need the closure!
I felt the same way about Shenmue III. I felt something was missing in my life without it. I’m glad that you have overcome your other adversities. The themes of losing a loved one, leaving your home to an unknown land, being able to experience it yourself through Ryo just gives you that connection that in your own way, you have unfinished business just like him.
Shenmue is more than just a video game to me. In a lot of ways it helped me transition into adulthood. In terms of satisfaction, I would've been happy if Yu Suzuki wrote the remaining chapters on a napkin and framed it somewhere for people to read. What I've seen from Shenmue III so far is giving me the inclination to believe this is a very unapologetic Shenmue experience and I couldn't ask for more.
As far as what I'm personally looking for out of the game in terms of expectations, the only thing I want is for the game to teach me something that I can carry on to my real life and learn some lessons that can make me a better man like Shenmue I and II did.
Shenmue means something to me in ways that I could have never imagined. I wouldn’t say it helped me transition to adulthood, but it has been a companion that’s been with me for half of my life. I got into it during a time when I was studying Japanese and wanted to one day go there and Shenmue filled in that gap in its own way. My image of Japan until then was mostly just Tokyo and Osaka but getting something rural with Yokosuka was something fresh and made me feel part of a community.
When I play Yakuza, I feel how populated and yet lonely the red light districts of big cities are. I lived near a video game store that sold imports when I was in high school and that is where I got a Japanese Dreamcast (well, my parents got it for my brothers and I as an end of the school year present in May of 1999), and I got my Japanese copy of Shenmue there on December 31, 1999. When the clock hit midnight 2000, the first thing I was doing was playing Shenmue. Maybe I’ll do the same when it becomes 2020 for Shenmue 3.